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5 to change their relative positions; again the bear looked out from his concealment, and again withdrew his head behind the gopher hill; scarcely was this motion performed, before Ish-pau-bi-kau was on his feet and flying with the fleetness of a reindeer across the prairie towards the Tamarack swamp. It might have been a half hour before the bear again looked out from his hiding place, and a few bounds brought him to the place where he had last seen the body; here taking the track of Ish-pau-bi-kau, he was soon in full pursuit. and when the hunters entered the tamarack swamp, the bear was close at his heels. Ish-pau-bi-kau had just reached the top-most branches of a large tamarack tree, when the bear took up his position at its roots. Unlike his black brethren, the white bear is no climber and Ish-pau-bi-kau was now beyond his reach; but determined not to be cheated of his prey, he immediately commenced digging and knawing the roots of the tree. A short time sufficed to bring down the tree with a crash, but the disappointed bear perceived with chagrin that Ish-pau-bi-kau had caught the limb of another tree and was still beyond his reach; and so closely grew the tamaracks, that if the bear felled the one the Indian occupied, it was certain in falling to carry him right into the branches of another. The bear now resumed his old tactics; walking some distance from the occupied tree, he laid down in a place concealed from the view of the Indian, and where by poking his head out from time to time, he could observe all that was going on. Ish-pau-bi-kau now commenced constructing from the small branches of the tamarack am image as much like his own form as possible, and with the assistance of his belt, breechclout and head dress he soon had a figure that at a distance would closely resemble a man. Waiting his opportunity when the bear had been taking an observation, and had again withdrawn his head, Ish-pau-pi-kau fixed the image in his place, and gliding swiftly down the tree, again trusted to his speed to save his life. Unfortunately the very means he had taken to secure his escape, became the cause of a speediest pursuit by the bear; a slight gust of wind shook the image from its position and